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  • Emu's TV programmes (category Articles with short description)
    Rod Hull's chanted catchphrase "There's somebody at the door, oh, there's somebody at the door" every time a visitor rang the doorbell of the Pink Windmill—which...
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    Siobhan Finneran (category All articles with dead external links)
    underclass. Finneran's character is a troubled yet loving mother, who she describes as "not quite the full shilling". In spite of the tough subject matter...
    44 KB (4,298 words) - 20:56, 9 May 2024
  • Cameo Cinema murder case (category Articles with short description)
    sprinting out of the building and away up a side street, so quickly they could not keep up with him, was not somebody who had been drinking. Forensic examination...
    19 KB (2,582 words) - 20:36, 5 June 2024
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    Dennis Miller (category All articles with dead external links)
    zero and you arrest somebody to get him inside off the street—that's not something Hitler would do. It made me realize that I was with the wrong group if...
    85 KB (10,084 words) - 17:32, 24 May 2024
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    film; he was more effective as somebody's sidekick, and MGM released him in 1934. Durante went to England to work in a Richard Tauber film musical, Land...
    33 KB (3,887 words) - 18:27, 5 June 2024
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    Boxing career of Muhammad Ali (category Pages with login required references or sources)
    Clay was returning to his corner when he began experiencing blinding pain in his eyes and asked his trainer, Angelo Dundee, to cut off his gloves. Dundee...
    205 KB (13,982 words) - 05:05, 7 June 2024
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    George Orwell (redirect from Eric A. Blair)
    at a lodgings for half a crown (two shillings and sixpence, or one-eighth of a pound) a day. Blair now contributed regularly to Adelphi, with "A Hanging"...
    199 KB (24,474 words) - 21:38, 6 June 2024
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    the Challenge Cup at a cost of just £60. Fattorini's also supplied three-guineas winners' medals then valued at thirty shillings (£1.50). The first competition...
    33 KB (3,134 words) - 20:40, 10 May 2024
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    to 1 November 1850 in 19 monthly one-shilling instalments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), with a...
    174 KB (23,420 words) - 11:26, 2 June 2024
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    Keith Moon (category Articles with short description)
    loudest contemporary drummers, Screaming Lord Sutch's Carlo Little, at ten shillings per lesson. His early style was influenced by jazz, American surf music...
    73 KB (9,503 words) - 06:37, 7 June 2024
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    John Lennon (category English emigrants to the United States)
    a bloody balloon if somebody's going to pay me." McCartney took over on bass after Sutcliffe decided to stay in Hamburg, and Best was replaced with drummer...
    181 KB (19,572 words) - 23:27, 2 June 2024
  • List of George and Mildred episodes (category Articles with short description)
    Thames Television did consider producing a spin-off for the character of George, looking at him cope with life as a widower. However, this project did not...
    36 KB (513 words) - 05:24, 15 October 2023
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    "So somebody who looks like my brother – he says, 'I'm a woman', and walks into the women's bathroom, and a woman goes, 'You're not supposed to be here'...
    179 KB (17,355 words) - 05:33, 7 June 2024
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    Quackery (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, derived from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve" or rather somebody who boasted about...
    85 KB (9,478 words) - 11:28, 6 June 2024
  • ISBN 978-0-902920-60-6. Davies, Christopher (2005). Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-00275-7...
    124 KB (1,415 words) - 17:45, 20 May 2024
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    WikiLeaks (category Internet services shut down by a legal challenge)
    being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased". In November 2007, a March 2003 copy of Standard Operating Procedures for...
    409 KB (35,153 words) - 12:57, 29 May 2024
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    Richard III of England (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    shillings made to her in 1477. The Haute family was related to the Woodvilles through the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville's aunt, Joan Wydeville, to William...
    153 KB (17,391 words) - 00:35, 4 June 2024
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    Enoch Powell (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    prescribed to women through the NHS at a subsidised price of 2 shillings per month. In this job, he developed the 1962 Hospital Plan. He began a debate on...
    194 KB (26,949 words) - 19:40, 3 June 2024
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    sent to Lancashire were taken to London, put on a boat of Pickfords...carried to Manchester in four or five days at a cost of fourteen shillings. But...
    111 KB (12,900 words) - 14:37, 25 May 2024
  • List of Super Bowl commercials (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    Ryan (February 13, 2022). "Et tu, Larry? Why so many celebrities are shilling for crypto". Los Angeles Times. Janiak, Lily (February 11, 2022). "Salesforce's...
    455 KB (13,802 words) - 19:50, 2 June 2024
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